Magazine air-gun.



J. H. 00X. MAGAZINE ALR GUN.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, 1908.

926,546, Patented June 29, 1909.

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn cv JOSEPH HENRY COX, OF ASTON, JUX'IA.BIRMlNGllAM, ENGLAND.

NIAGAZINE AIR-GUN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1909.

Application filed February 24:, 1908. Serial No. 417,557.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, Josnrn HENRY Cox, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at Lozells, Aston, juxta Birmingham, England, haveinvented new and useful improvements in Magazine Air-Guns, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention is comprised in the heroinafter described improvementsconnected with an air gun of the fixed barrel type in which there isprovided a rotatable part, usually hand operated, fitted in an airtightmanner transverse of the gun to form a combined pellet receiver andpositioner, such part being well known as the loading plug in thepresent well known pattern of Lincoln (manufactured by the B. S. A. Co.)air rifle to which the invention particularly refers.

My invention consists in providing an air gun of the type referred towith an effective magazine which will not in its arrangement interferewith the line of sight, and which is particularly applicable to thepresent pattern of Lincoln or B. S. A. leading plug inasmuch as itsapplication thereto demands no material change in the presentconstruction and fitting of the plug. The magazine is preferablyarranged to be operated from the rotating movement of the plug.

Preferably the pellet carrier of my magazine is in the form of arotatable disk-like plate movable about an axis which is verl ical inplane at right angles to the plane in which the axis of the plug lies.The plate is a stiifiy working one so as to oll'er some resistance torotation, and is connected to the loading plug preferably by ratchet andpawl devices so that the part rotation of the plug brings into positioneach succeeding pellet compartment in the disk at the right moment forthe pellet to drop, preferably by its own weight from the saidcompartment into the seating provided to receive it in the loading plug.The disk, which forms the pellet carrier and which has a number ofcompartments in it to hold each a pellet is recessed into the top of theair gun body adjacent to or over the plug, and may be indirectlyconnected with the said plug by a toothed gear which is placed, inrespect of the magazine, upon the plug side of the ratchet and pawldevices hereinbcl'ore referred to. The pellet compartmentsin ring sothat each compartment is separate, and when the pellets are placed inthe com partments they rest upon a surface of the gun barrel upon whichor adjacent to which, the disk like; plate beds. The pellet carryingplate is provided with a lid or cover which can be removed, or swungaside, for loading the magazine plate, this lid or cover also having asingle hole through it so that the pellets can be placed into theloading plug, through the magazine plate, one at a lime if ordinaryloading is desired.

The practical carrying out of the invention is represented in thedrawings, by the help of which the features hereinafter specificallyclaimed will now be particularly described.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a Lincoln pattern air gun, aindicz'rting the well known loading plug, 0 the back sight, and (Z theposition of my magazine in respect of the said sight and the loadingplug. Fig. 2 is a top side plan, on a larger scale, of a portion of Fig.1 with the magazine cover swung aside, Fig. 3 is a vertical sectionalelevation of Fig. 2 but with the cover in place, lifig. :iis a similarsectional elevation showing the toothed and ratchet connection between.the loading plug and the magazine plate, Fig. 5 is a separate view ofthe loading plug, Fig. (5 shows two views of the magazine plate byitself, and Fig. 7 shows two views of a bar which forms part of theconnection means between the plug and the magazine plate.

The loading plug a, aforesaid, may be constructed and fitted to the gunbreech as ordinarily except that for the purpose of the invention it isnow represented at a in Figs. l and 5, as provided with a toothed partfor the purpose hereinafter described. The said plug has the usualpellet receiving and positioning hole (1 and the gun body adjacentthereto the usual loading hole or breech a" re 'nesented particularly inFig. 3.

c is the disk like plate having within it a number of all through pelletholes or compartments e", and having arranged upon its under side 2 2:number of ratchet teeth corresponding to the number of saidcompartments. This plate is the magazine plate whose compartincnts inloading the gun when using the magazine are lillcd with pel lets; it is,at], recessed, or let into the top of the gun body adjacent to theloading plug (1, and is adapted to have an intermittent rotation on anaxis which when the gun is horithe plate are all through holes arrangedin a zontal, is vertical or at right angles to the ill) plane in whichthe axis of the loading plug hes. The said pla e 6 1L cdded upon the topof the gun body it an axial shouldered pin f in a manner maintaining theplate quite as loading plug, or into the hole a of the loading plug iisuch hole c is in the correct position to receive the pellet. The toofree intermittent rotation of the magazine plate a, or in other words,the resistance thereof to too easy rotation, is provided against by alimb spring 51 which lies in the recess f underneath the magazine plateto bear against the said plate with some friction. The compartments inthe plate e being all through ones necessitates a rest surface for thepellets in the compartments, which surface is provided on the gun bodyadjacent to where the plate 6 beds, so that only when a compartment isopposite the loading hole (0* can a pellet escape, and then only if theloading plug is in a position to receive it further these all-throughcompartments necessitate a cover to the plate 6. This cover is in theform oi a swing aside flat plate 71 which has a single hole 7L2 throughit. This plate is placed in position over the magazine plate 6 afterloading, or if ordinary one-pellet-at-atime loading is desired it isswung aside as represented in Fig. 2 to enable the magazine late to beeasily iilled.

Provided between the toothed part a of the loading plug a and theratchet teeth e of the magazine plate e is a bar-i, represented in Fig.7 carrying racl; teeth "L and a spring pawl i The rack teeth i engagethe teeth part c of the plug a and the spring pawl i is adapted tooperate in connection with ratchet teeth 6 The said bar has asliding-movement in a guiding groove i of the gun body, and is placedrespecting the plug and the magazine plate in the manner represented inFigs. 2 and 4. It will be therefore seen that there is a feedingconnection of the magazine plate to the loading plug a, and that eachtime the said loadin plug is moved a fresh compartment will be Droughtinto position over the seating in the loading plug; the arrangementbeing such that the intermittent rotation of the magazine plate talresplace during the movement opening th plug The closing plate h is stilllyfitted to the gun body, so that its position covering in the open top ofthe magazine plate can be maintained although the said magazine platerotates underneath to feed forward each succeeding pellet. The hole t inthe plate it, when said plate covers the magazine plate,

is always coincident with the pellet compartof carrying my inventioninto effect, but .i wish it to be understood that various modificationscan be made in the appl' tion oi the invention to the loading plug ithout interi'ering with the features set out in my principal claims:instance, means other than that des ribed could be arranged to connectthe loading plug with the magazine plate or a different form of magazineplate could be employed to have a sliding movement instead of a rotatingone.

i am aware that it has hitherto been proposed to provide a magazine gun,and 1 malre no broad claim to such. dy invention firstly, only relatesto a specific type of air gun namely to one of Lincoln or B. S. A.pattern having a rotatable loading plug, and, secondly, provides amagazine which is no real part ol the plug itself but only anarrangement to be iitted to work with the plug; it being alwaysunderstood that in whatever form my invention is applied it must not inany way interfere with the line of sight of the gun.

The purpose of the magazine is of course obvious namely to enable roundof a given number of shots to fired without independent hand loading foreach shot, but further than this its use is of immense advantage to theshooter in a sense of permitting more concentration upon the shooting,and practical experience in the handling of a gun constructed accordingto the invention shows that much better shooting can be cilected byreason of the firing time being quickened for a round of a given numberof shots, and by reason of the operations to get ready for firinglessened in number an\ of the doing away with the troublesome work ofpicking up a small pellet in the lingers and of placing it in positionwithin the loading plug each time it is desired to fire a shot.

Having now described my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters latout is 1.. in an air gun of the fixed barrel type, thecombination with a rotatable loading plug, of a movable pellet carriercomprising a number or separate and independent pellet compartments eachof which is successively brought into position over the loading plug,the compartments being manually filled.

2. in an air gun of the fixed barrel type,

the combination of a rotatable loading plug, 1

a pellet carrier in the form of a rotatable disk movable in a plane atright angles to the plane in which the axis of the plug lies andcomprising a number of separate and independent pellet compartments eachof which is successively brought into position over the loading plug,and means for intermittently rotating the said carrier.

3. In an air gun of the fixed barrel type the combination of a rotatablepellet or loading plug, pellet carrier forming part of a magazine, anddevices for connecting the said plug to the carrier so that theoperation of the plug operates the carrier, substantially as described.

4. 111 an air gun of the fixed barrel type the combination of arotatable pellet or load ing plug, a pellet carrier in the form of a1'0- tatable disk like plate movable upon a vertical axis or in a planeat right angles to the plane in which the axis of the plug lies, saidplate being recessed in the top of the gun body adjacent to the plug,and means for in tern'iittently rotating the disk like plate, substantially as described.

5. In a gun of the lixed barrel type the combination of a rotatableloading plug, a magazine plate, and ratchet and pawl devices for movingthe said plate in operative relation to the plug.

111 witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

JOSEPH HENRY COX.

G120. 'l. FUERY, FRANCIS A. BINNs.

